Title:
Title
(Pass for Publication) Ordinance Amending Chapters 17.228 and 5.150 of the Sacramento City Code Relating to Cannabis Manufacturing
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FileID
File ID: 2019-01283
Location
Location: Citywide
Recommendation:
Recommendation
1) Review an ordinance deleting sections 5.150.830 and 5.150.1320 and amending section 5.150.1100 and various sections of chapter 17.228 of the Sacramento City Code relating to cannabis manufacturing to allow volatile manufacturing in the City; and 2) pass for publication the ordinance title as required by the Sacramento City Code section 32(c) for consideration of adoption on September 24, 2019.
Contact: Leyne Milstein, Assistant City Manager, (916) 808-8491; Zarah Cruz, Program Specialist, (916) 808-8925, Office of Cannabis Management, Office of the City Manager; Joy Patterson, Principal Planner, (916) 808-5607, Community Development Department.
Body
Presenter: None
Attachments:
1-Description/Analysis
2-Ordinance (Clean)
3-Ordinance (Redline)
Description/Analysis
Issue Detail: On February 26, 2019, the Law and Legislation Committee (Committee) approved a policy proposal to expand the City's manufacturing regulations to allow volatile manufacturing facilities in the city. The proposal was a result of the growing interest by the cannabis industry to expand into volatile manufacturing to diversify its product lines.
In approving the proposals, the Committee directed staff to draft an ordinance amending the City Code and also to conduct a survey of manufacturing applicants to ensure that allowing volatile manufacturing will not create an unfair disadvantage against applicants who are already permitted or have an application for non-volatile manufacturing.
Industry research and discussions with other cities show that the use of volatile solvents can be safe when performed in a professional closed-loop extraction system using approved equipment operated in an environment with proper ventilation and with approve...
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